"I grew up loving those [Bond] films. Who didn't?" Orlando told BBC News this week. "I'm sure they'll probably do more with Daniel, and who knows where they'll go with that?

"Again, that franchise is a part of the fabric of our society, isn't it? It's something that people really relate, and laugh and enjoy… That little wink and twinkling behind the eyes is what I always saw in Sean Connery and Roger Moore.

"I love what Daniel Craig did — muscular, dynamic. I think there's a combination of all of that that's really interesting."

Orlando has even thought out exactly how he'd play his James Bond, if he ever got the green light from producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson.

"I think it'd be very English, but that sort of twinkle with the muscular dynamic," he explained. "Who knows? They could do a woman, the world that we live in today.

"Who knows where they'll go with it? I don't know, but I do love that [James Bond] world. Who doesn't?"

Eon Productions is currently in the midst of nailing down a Hollywood studio distribution deal, with its current home Sony Pictures, Warner Bros, Universal, 20th Century Fox and Annapurna Pictures bidding for the rights to release Bond 25.